Vocabulary : Horror-sticken to Horse-chestnut

Horror-sticken : Struck with horror; horrified.
Horror-struck : Horror-stricken; horrified.
Hors de combat : Out of the combat; disabled from fighting.
Hors d'oeuveres : of Hors d'oeuvre
Hors d'oeuvre : Something unusual or extraordinary. ;; A dish served as a relish, usually at the beginning of a meal.

Horse : A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes. ;; The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male. ;; Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot. ;; A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc. ;; A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers w
Horse Guards : A body of cavalry so called; esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furnishes guards of state for the sovereign.
Horse power : The power which a horse exerts. ;; A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per second, etc. ;; A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery; a horse motor.
Horseback : The back of a horse. ;; An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition.
Horse-chestnut : The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. ;; The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes.

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